The federal murder of Gordon Kahl. Morals, motives, methods, aftermath, the rest of the story...?

Question

Please give as many details as you can.

Answer 1

I'm not surprised at the general lack of interest in answering this question. The federal police in the United States have proved that they will commit murder, aggravated by foul torture, and conspire to corrupt judicial inquiries into their crimes by threatening witnesses, suborning perjury, and subverting juries by sneaking stooges into them. And, since they've killed innocent people before, there's every reason to expect that they will do it again, and someone who answers this question too thoroughly might be next.

So let's get to the answering, immediately.

Gordon Kahl was a North Dakota farmer who had a legal hobby. When he wasn't plowing his fields, he studied the federal tax laws. His research convinced him that the US government was illegally collecting some part of its income tax revenue. He stopped filing his federal income tax forms - and, in fact, it's possible that he earned so little that he wasn't required to file. But when Gordon Kahl began calling for other people to also stop filing, someone in the Internal Revenue Service ordered him killed.

A team of US marshals was assigned to be the hit men. They planned a roadblock ambush for Gordon, where they intended to murder him with their guns. It happened that on that day Gordon's son, Yorie Kahl, was with his father, and, when the federal agents began shooting, they seriously wounded the boy.

Gordon grabbed his hunting rifle from its rack and began shooting back. Kahl appears to have been a much better shot than the marshals were. He killed two of them, wounded at least one other, and put the surviving federal killers to flight. Gordon Kahl then took his son to a doctor, where his life was saved.

Gordon Kahl knew, or soon learned, who had tried to kill him, and he knew that the US government would soon make another attempt. Leaving his family behind, Gordon Kahl fled to Arkansas, where he was given sanctuary by two different families. He hid from a massive federal manhunt in this way for more than two months.

Gordon was betrayed by the daughter of one of the men who'd offered to hide him. In exchange for $25000 and immunity from prosecution, this young woman sold an innocent 56-year-old man to his killers and her own father into a federal prison.

The government's next attempt to assassinate Gordon Kahl was successful. The FBI, some US Marshals, men from the "Delta Force," and several members Lawrence County (Arkansas) local law enforcement encircled the home where Kahl had been taking shelter. They tricked the family members into coming out, where they were carried away and held somewhere.

When the federal agents believed that Gordon Kahl was alone in the house, they began shooting armor-piercing bullets into it with their full-auto military rifles. However, Gordon's room was behind an earthwork barrier, and the bullets didn't hit him.

It may be that Gordon was unarmed this time; there is no evidence that he did any of the shooting at what the federal police would later call a "shootout." The corrupt lawmen entered the wrecked house and found Gordon.

They inflicted horrible torture on the man before killing him. Several "Delta Force" agents held him down and used their rifle butts to break his bones, pop pop pop, one after another. Then someone took an axe and hacked off his hands and feet. One of his assailants then took a pistol and shot him in the head, and Gordon Kahl died.

For a short time after the murder, the federals were a little worried that they might have killed the wrong man. The landowner, William Wade, was a near look-alike for Gordon Kahl, and about the same age. The confusion prompted the federal agents to attempt to conceal their deeds by sending someone up to the roof of the house and pour gasoline down the chimney, then lighting it to burn the house down.

But when Mr. Wade showed up, it became clear that the US government had, after all, murdered the man whom they'd set out to murder, and, from their point of view and in that respect, all was well.

There were a few other loose ends, however. Someone killed the Lawrence County Sheriff, Gene Matthews, at about the same time Kahl was being murdered. While it isn't known who pulled THAT trigger, the blame was taken by the father of the young woman who ratted to the FBI to get the reward money. It's possible that the FBI pressured her to give false testimony against her dear old dad. When you deal with the Devil, you know...

It has occurred to me that Sheriff Matthews might have had sufficient courage and morals to oppose the federal murder plot, and that he might have been murdered by the federals for obstructing them in the name of the law.

The Chief of Police in Medina, North Dakota, Darrell Graf, has testified that FBI agents and US Marshals conspired together in his presence to set up the murder of Gordon Kahl and that he had wanted no part of their plan.

The US Marshal service wasn't satified with Gordon's death and decided to exact further vengeance against Yorie Kahl, Gordon's son. They invented a story in which Yorie supposedly did the shooting that killed the two Marshals in the first ambush, in North Dakota. They brought false charges in a federal court, and then they began tampering with witnesses and packing their stooges into the jury pool. Yorie Kahl was wrongly convicted, wrongly sentenced, and incorrectly branded a "terrorist" as the result of this due-process cheating.

Certain leftist groups like to point out that Gordon Kahl had been a member of Posse Comitatus, a group that seeks to limit the power of the federal government to meddle in the enforcement of local laws. It's not clear to me why membership in Posse Comitatus is a bad thing, but leftists seem to make it sound that way whenever they mention it.

There is a law called the Posse Comitatus Act, which forbids the US government from using military forces in law enforcement... a law that the US government has repeatedly violated.

But the original reason the federal government decided to murder Gordon Kahl had to do with his attempt to publicize illegal parts of the federal income tax, or to expose illegal methods the US government used to collect such taxes. Doubtless, Gordon Kahl isn't the only victim of the federals for this reason, but of all such victims to date, his case most clearly demonstrates the ruthless corruption that exists within the United States Government.

Answer 2

Gordon Kahl

Answer 3

Yorie Kahl

Answer 4

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